Wednesday, September 16, 2009

With the newt-like metamorphosis of Anwar Ibrahim’s Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) encumbering the Pakatan Rakyat’s lurch for power, Lim Guan Eng’s hunch that the ground is no longer the same as it was under Pak Lah must be a strong hint that the DAP secretary-general has become illumined.

Guan Eng had said knocking off Najib Tun Razak from the helm would not be easy.

The PKR is breaking down. The recent crossover to Umno of the PKR Lunas assemblyman in Kedah and the recalcitrant Port Klang assemblyman in Selangor are obvious symptoms of the newt reaching maturity and must return to the mud and slush for it to spawn a fresh batch of larvae.

Guan Eng must have known there wasn’t and hasn’t been much in the PKR. It is mostly about Anwar, his secretaries and a few NGOs close to him, many of the rest picked from the streets without any character assessment.

Months after the Pakatan Perak state government was formed, two PKR State Executive Councilors were trapped suckling China dolls paid for by a contractor. As a consequence the government fell in disgrace.

The playtime of these PKR members in the lair of power did not stop there.

A personal tryst of another PKR State Executive Councilor rushed into the Internet a set of near-nude pictures a gory Gallum of the middle-world said was altogether alright in Islam.

Now a Kedah State Executive Councilor who is the assemblyman for Lunas has crossed court saying he has lost confidence in Anwar Ibrahim who is again facing a charge for sodomy.

What’s left for the PKR to use as a foundation to acquire public confidence is a mystery. After more than a year of coaching most of the party’s state executive and district councilors are said to be ineffective or utterly deadwoods

They are mainly members of NGO’s who are hardly acquainted with government or with any executive function.

Now suddenly propped with power they seem to believe that that power is well spent by attending meetings after meetings in a pretense of hard work. It is Anwar that is stuck and stumped in the up-shot.

While he and his team can win a significant number of seats in state assemblies and in parliament, delivery is yet to unfold into the tangible world.

The PKR, which may have started out well in Selangor with former Guthrie’s CEO, Khalid Ibrahim, leading the state government, is now looking frothy and fat.

The DAP too may be staring into space in Selangor where the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigations and the select committee on competency, accountability and transparency (Selcat)interrogations can reveal more graft-stubs and fund-pilfering graver than previously suspected.

In the Islamic landscape the Pas has run berserk with the party’s Selangor state commissioner, Hassan Ali, wishing to form mosque-based moral squads to nab beer from the shelves in Muslim-majority areas.

He seems enthralled by the Pahang Shariah Court judge who had slapped some Muslims who drank beer with a fine of RM5,000, six lashes of the whip and recently, with a year custodial sentence as well.

As Malaysia appears to be going religiously mad, the PKR’s Reformasi and Pakatan’s Civil Society are staying clear from the mental-waste.

Anwar and his PKR were strangely soft about the Pas’ war against beer.

When the powers-that-be decided to slam six Shah Alam demonstrators with sedition for parading a cow’s head and then stepping and spitting on it, the PKR quickly distanced itself from the deemed sacrilegious act to appease their members who are Hindus.

It will be the monkey that the PKR should next uphold as a sacred creature, the being associated in Hinduism with the god, Hanuman, and with Sun Wu Kung in Indo-Chinese beliefs.

What is the policy position of the Reformasi and of Civil Society concerning these bewildering developments involving beer and cattle? Anwar must elucidate or the whole of the Reformasi will have to be disregarded as merely a politically sopped maverick and hence, in Islam, as short-changing the people and therefore fraudulent (Mutafiffin).

The relevant Quranic verses run like this:

Woe to the cheaters,Who, when taking the measures from the people, they take full measure,But when they give the measure to the people they cheat. Do they not expect to be resurrected? --- Q. 83: 1 – 4

The PKR may be resurrected as a newt given its sidestepping of issues relating to the religious mental-waste.

The newt lives through a three-stage metamorphosis – a creature born in mud and slush that lives on dry land as a juvenile and then back to the mud and slush in its maturity.

As for the cow, is it really sacred to the Hindus or is it merely taboo to a large number of them? Haven’t you seen Indian cowherds whipping cattle? --- a. ghani ismail (16 Sept. 2009)

It has been more than 21 years from 1991 and continuing. It's insensible, oppressive and tyrannical. Stop it! Direct radiowave invasions caused me to run in and out of hospitals and losing 22 kilograms between February and September 2012. This was the second time I suddenly lost a lot of weight, the earlier in 2004. They inflict pain, they deny sleep and appetite.

The doctors could not attach any reason to it. It's clear the regime will not tolerate any difference of views. Writers must kowtow. It's become debauched.

Internet? They can switch on your computer while it is closed. They are the Lords of the Wifi, of course. You can't use your line phone even! For a country that's pretending to be a free society it's diabolical. Oh Big Brother!

Now check it out and get back to the basic purposes of Reformasi and Bersih. You got lots of work for Obama to undertake if we are to be a Free World! Address the good President then. He could be our only chance.

Nurul Izzah Anwar - Freedom's Queen

The right of the adult individual to choose his/her own religion is an inalienable human right, a freedom of conscience civilised society is marked by. In the Malay world this right had been very much a part of the Jawi religion, a stance of composite religion growing from the writings of Tantular who authored the Indonesian ideology we know as Bhineka Tunggal Eka, or Unity in Diversity, a word that had meant and must still mean religious composity.

Hence, in Indonesia a single family may manifest all religions, which is something being threatened by the rise of Islamic fundamentalism today, evidently reflected at the very top of Umno in Malaysia following Nurul Izzah's recent affirmation of the need for freedom of religion among Malays.

Nurul Izzah has done right and at a time when we most need to hear such an affirmative statement of our cause. She is, therefore, a freedom queen, no less.

Compulsion does not occur in Islam. Nurul Izzah is right about that and this writer had once debated this with a university professor from Pas in Berita Harian. The laws of Islam in Medinah did not apply on Muslims living outside the city.

Thank you Nurul. Thank you! Victory is only an arms-length away. Do not back away. They cannot be twisting and turning Islam as they wish and still call it the same religion.

This Blogger Finally Votes For Regime Change In Malaysia

The Transformasi is understood as mainly a financial option for high income with a minimum planned social impact and hence, on the national personality and character of this multiracial country as well. Therefore, in view of the social inequalities, the relative lack of civil liberties, the institutional dysfunctions usually associated with hubris, the mega corruption cases and with a dead body in the fur to boot, the vote easily goes to Reformasi, which is for democratic change and a level playing field. It may need two or more steps to get there but it is decidedly a better chance. [] [] [] Meanwhile PM Najib has failed to manage rising costs of essential goods and of housing/office-spaces. Then there is the estrangement of the Police Force after bungling against the demonstrators, bystanders and journalists on 28 April 2012 (BERSIH 3.0) using "thuggery" as the Department did three days earlier against a group of students who had camped at Merdeka Square. Never in my lifetime has the Police Department been wracked like that and I am 72. [][][] The unimaginable has been happening with regularlarity in Malaysia, meaning whom the Gods wish to destroy they first render mad. How can you anymore trust the Police Department? [][][] This has been about the Third Force, something a few of us tried way back in 1985-87 led by Dato Sopie. [][][] All's well that ends well. I continue to possess intact Life, Liberty and the Pursuance of Happiness. Good luck to you! Your destiny is yours to decide. Unless you sell it or you lose it in primitive innocence, nobody can take that away from you. The BN is set to lose Putrajaya in the 13th General Elections.- 25 Oct. 2012.